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When to regulate airports: A simple rule

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  • Kratzsch, Uwe
  • Sieg, Gernot

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Landing fees at airports are regulated almost all over the world since airports are assumed to abuse their market power. We find that monopolistic airports have an incentive to restrain landing fees when they generate additional non-aviation revenues and that the optimal landing fee decreases in the degree of complementarity of aviation and non-aviation. Furthermore, we show that monopolistic airports will not have an incentive to abuse their market power anymore so that a price regulation becomes inappropriate as soon as non-aviation revenues increase above 50% of all airport revenues.

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  • Kratzsch, Uwe & Sieg, Gernot, 2009. "When to regulate airports: A simple rule," Economics Department Working Paper Series 6, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Economics Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:tbswps:6
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    Keywords

    airport regulation; aviation and non-aviation revenues; complementarity of aviation and non-aviation; locational rents;
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    JEL classification:

    • L93 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Air Transportation
    • D42 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Monopoly
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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